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"I had to be who I wasn’t so that I could survive."
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"I had to be who I wasn’t so that I could survive."
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“Everything was so quiet like somebody had shut the volume control off on the world.”
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“Everything was so quiet like somebody had shut the volume control off on the world.”
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“My parents were sharecroppers, working the land, working the tobacco, pulling the little bloom that comes off so there’d be more leaves…”
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“My parents were sharecroppers, working the land, working the tobacco, pulling the little bloom that comes off so there’d be more leaves…”
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On the Boardwalk

Stories from New York City's Coney Island

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StoryCorps 506: Between June and September
20:55

StoryCorps 506: Between June and September
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"I just started calling the sharks names of dirty, rotten, stinkin’ rock and rollers."
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"I just started calling the sharks names of dirty, rotten, stinkin’ rock and rollers."
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StoryCorps 433: Coney Island Baby
12:37

StoryCorps 433: Coney Island Baby
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Under the Roller Coaster
4:20

Under the Roller Coaster

Animations

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Driven
2:48
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Miss Devine

Staff Picks

Memorable stories from our archive, chosen by our interview facilitators

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"One of the greatest tools that I learned is that I have the ability to truly change someone’s life."
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"One of the greatest tools that I learned is that I have the ability to truly change someone’s life."

Jamel Massey tells his friend Tyree Hicks about the mentor he had while incarcerated who helped change his life.
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"Have me and Mom ever extremely disappointed you?"

"Have me and Mom ever extremely disappointed you?"

Minister Beau Harris talks with his daughter, Kioni "Popcorn" Marshall, about the changes they've seen in their family over the years.
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"I was six years old when she left for New York City."

"I was six years old when she left for New York City."

José Cruz tells his daughter, Grace Cruz, about staying in the Dominican Republic after his mother moved to New York City to start a better life for them.
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"Why do you care so much for a stranger?"

"Why do you care so much for a stranger?"

Horace Atwater Jr. tells Adrian Hawkins about the very personal experience he had with his own family that led him to take him in a foster child.